EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1987If we take back our democracy, we Tll take back our streeThis past February, the Houseof Representatives passed a billwhich would kill the oexclusionaryrule ? the rule that says the evi-dence obtained in an illegal searchcannot be introduced at trial. Thisbill was part of the oTaking BackOur Streets Act, ? the Republicans Tattempt to rewrite last year Ts $30billion Crime Bill, to make it eventougher on criminals. However,the bill takes back some of ourconstitutional rights as well.The fourth amendment to theConstitution guarantees the nghtof Americans to be osecure in theirpersons, houses, papers, and ef-fects, against unreasonablesearches and seizures. ? This rightcannot be violated, unless the po-lice obtain a warrant from ajudge.To get the warrant, the police mustswear an oath that they have oprob-able cause ?: the belief that a crimehas been or will be committed, andthat evidence of this crime can befound in the location to be searched.The warrant must spell out in de-tail the place to be searched andthe persons or things to be seized.Under the exclusionary rule, ifthe police went ahead witha searchandseizure withouta warrantthat _satisfied all these fourth amend-"ment requirements, then the evi-dence seized could not be usedagainst the defendant. There havebeen occasions when highly in-criminating evidence, illegally ob-tained, has been excluded from atrial, leading to the acquittal ofdefendants who may have beenguilty. Some of our lawmakerswhose zeal in fighting crime hasled them into murky constitu-tional waters have seized on theseinstances to justify doing awaywith the exclusionary rule.Critics of the exclusionary rulesay that it puts obstacles in theway of police officers trying to dotheir job. But the exclusionaryrule reinforces and supports theprofessionalism of our police, byensuring that if they do not buildacase within constituitional con-straints, then they have no case atall. The rule has given crucial pro-tection to people of color, whomthe police often pursue withoutany regard for their constitutionalrights. ;The lawmakers who want'to doaway with the rule say they wantto make allowances for occasionswhen the police make ogood faith ?mistakes. But something as basicas our Americn way of life as theright to be secure in ourown homes_should not be compromised tomake allowances for official blun-ders.Reparations and Black Taxation pleadings anddebate changes to direct actionBy: Robert BrockThe direction of the ReparationsMovement of Black Americans ofslaves T descent has changed frompleading and debate to that ofaction and a dramatic challengeto pay no income taxes to the fed-eral government based on a suitwhich questions the legality offorcing Black Americans to paytaxes, according to Robert Brock,Founder of the Self Determina-tion Committee, a Black national-istcommunity-based organizationwhose aim is to assist and directBlack U.S. slave descendants inobtaining the right of self-deter-mination and freedom, repara-tions, and repatriation.He said that the suit againstthe Internal Revenue Service wasfiledin April, 1993 using Interna-tional Law by Leonard Ashton whois refusing to pay taxes.The pleading and debate whichinvolves filing complaints or mak-ing statements of what happenedto Blacks in the past 1s what repa-rations have been about, but thatis what is changing.The basis of the suit, Brock,common law attorney for Ashtonsaid, is that emancipated slavesnever agreed to be governed bythe United States. Because theynever mutually established alle-giance with the federal govern-ment, they are not required toperform the duties of citizenship,one of which is being taxed by thegovernment.Asthe suit slowly moved throughthe United States District Courtin Los Angeles, Ashton filed amotion for Request and Order forJudicial Notice of status of citizen-ship and the Fourteenth Amend-ment under Rule 201, and in opencourt before Judge Davies at ahearing on October 4, 1993 made a ~bold disclaimer to the Court ofthe: 1.U.S. Constitution,2.13,14th Amendments, andCivil Rights Laws 3. and all otherlaws, statutes, rules, regulations,orders and commands of the UnitedStates on the grounds that LeonardAshton and 49 millions of U.S.slaves T descendants of African Oni-gin National Ancestry had neverconsented, agreed to, or voted onor swore to uphold the U.S. Consti-tution and its laws and statues,one of them being the LR.S.Presently, the suit, on appeal tothe Ninth Circuit Court of Ap-peals, lists four issues on whichthe refusal of slave descendants topay taxes is based, said Brock:A. MutualityB. Disclaimer,C. Domicile, andD. Jurisdiction based on Slavery.There is no showing nor havethe U.S. Courts answered, of anymutuality or consent through aJural process by Black slave de-scendants of the U.S. Constitu-tion and laws as to association bycitizenship, and it appears thatthe Unites States has agreed tothis issue by their silence and re-fusal to answer, said Brock.In support of Ashton Ts issue onmutuality, Brock pointed out thatthe following seven slave clausesin the U.S. Constitution negatesany mutuality to the U.S. Consti-tution, and further, said Brock, othe U.S. Constitution, used toenslave Blacks cannot be themeans to free or make Blacks citi-zens. ?Slave Clause: oThe Migration orImportation of such persons asany of the States now existingshall think proper to admit, shallnot be prohibited by the Congressprior to the Year one thousandeight hundred and eight, but a taxor duty may be imposed on suchImportation, not exceeding tendollars for such Person. ? Consti-tution, Article I, Section 9, ClauseI)Slave Clause: oThe UnitedStates shall protect..., and on Ap-plication of the Legislature, or ofthe Executive against domesticviolence. ? Constitution, Article IV,Section 4).Slave Clause: oNo person heldto Service or Labour in one State,under the laws theredf, escapinginto another, shall,in Consequenceof any law or Regulation thereinFederal Court dodges sensitiveissue of black taxation oThe judge resorted to any ex-cuse as a rationale to dispose ofthis hearing, since if the merits ofthis case were to so much as getinto the court, we would have wona-priori because al] of the premisesof our action, from decades of re-search, are unimpeachable. ?By Dr. Robert Brock, President,Self Determination Committee oWe Blacks of U.S., Slaves T De-scent are going forward on a foun-dation of just a few very simplepremises:1. The essence of a nation ispeople, not mere land mass;2. Black people, slaves andslaves T descendants had no par-ticipation, consent or mutuality inthe creation " and/or establish-ment of the United States Consti-tution, its Amendments, nor andlaws promulgated thereunder;3. A circumstance wherein lawsare made by one to be obeyed byanother without his mutual con-sent constitutes slavery; andBlacks having recently discoveredthat their captivity and slavery iscouched and hidden in obedienceto laws and the judiciary, underthe guise of olaw enforcement ? didthe following in this lawsuitagainst the I.R.S. and the U.S:a. Recognized and states thatBlacks of slave and slaves T descentare heldin captivity and the condi-tion and status of physical slaveryby acts of undeclared war of en-slavement as enemy aliens, andb. By force of arms, are pres-ently under- obedience and au-thority of the U.S. Constitution.Amendments, and laws, and,c. by the Fourteenth Amend-ment, without Blacks consent, aremade: oResident Aliens in the Ter-ritory of the United States, sub-jecting Blacks to the allegianceand duties of government and citi-zenship, one of them being taxa-tion. ?4. There never was any consentor mutuality to be under the lawsof the United States nor its U.S.Constitution by slaves & U.S.Slaves T Descendants and the fol-lowing seven U.S. Constitutionalslave Clauses negate any mutual-ity or consent;5. Amaxim of law is that silencemeans consent, baring the statuteof limitation, this suit made a bolddisclaimer of the above mannerand way the U.S. Government andits White sovereign Citizens madeus Black subject to allegiance andduties, and burdensof government,two of them being:a. ojuristice artificial persons, ?and by force arms, subjected to thejurisdiction of the United Statesascitizens and resident of the Stateb. Direct Taxation of slaves T de-scendants by IRS/FTB Ts. 6. TheDomicile of Black slaves T descen-dants.19 that of Africa/ T 1. Jurisdiction can only be legalover Blacks if the above there:mutuality, mutuality, and domi-cile are legal from the beginning;8. All 49 millions of Blacks ofUnited States Slaves and Slaves TDescent of African National] Ori- ~gin, an Ethnic Group, presentlyresident in the Territory of theUnited States, through this U.S.District Court law suit has unitedand demanded the U.S Govern-ment and its White People, that ifthey and the.I.R.S. want 49 mil-lions of Blacks to continue paying)income taxes every April 15, thenthey must oanswer, this, our law-suit and prove by Judicial Noticeof Black STATUS-"Not Verified ?by bringing documents into opencourt as to the way and mannerthe U.S. Government made allBlacks part of its government waslegal to begin with, ? THUS:9. All Blacks of Slaves Descentshall not pay any taxes, comesApril 15, according to law, untilsuch time as the DefendantsUnited States and the I.R.S. andF.T.B Ts, by legal and lawful meansprove the above;10. A slave-master/owner is re-sponsible for his slaves under theprinciple of Respondent Superiorin the same manner that a parentis responsible for its children or anemployer/business is for its em-ployees/agents;11. Only the (White) slave mas-ter/owner cancommit acrime. TheBlack slaves T Descendants can onlydisobey;12. As to all 49 millions of Blacksof slaves T descent being chargedwith a crime for not paying taxesaccording to the above way, man-ner and circumstances, on April15, or not even responding to theL.R.S. Letter or other Command topay taxes, this lawsuit states thefollowing, and the U.S. is put onNotice: oThis action having allegedMutuality, Disclaimer, Domicile,and said jusisdiction based on sla-very and captivity, and that themaking of all Blacks of slaves T de-scent non persons and legislativepersons after the law in violationof International Law,(Black Plain-(Continued on Page 5)be discharged from Service orLabour but shall be delivered upon claim of the Party to whomsuch Service or Labour may bedue. ? Constitution, Article IV, Sec-tion 2, Clause 3. Slave Clause: oToprovide for calling forth the mili-tia to execute the Union, suppressInsurrections and repel Invasions ?Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15).Slave Clause: ...provided thatno Amendment which may bemade prior to the Year One thou-sandeight hundred and eight shallin any manner affect the first andfourth Clauses in the Ninth Sec-tion of the first Article ?. (Constitu-tion, Article V).Slave Clause: oNo Capitation,or other direct Tax, shall be laid,unless in Proportion to the Censusof Enumeration herein before directed to be taken ?. (Constitution,Article, 1, Section 9, Clause 4).Slave Clause: oRepresentativeand direct Taxes shall be appor-tioned among the several Stateswhich may be included within thisUnion, according to the wholeNumber of free Persons, includingthose bound to Service for a Termof Years, and excluding Indiansnot taxed, three-fifths of all otherPersons ?. Constitution, Article I,Section 2, Clause 3). (The three-fifths ofa Person was how all slaveswere counted legally.)In descending order, Brockshows a negation of mutuality asfollow:The 14th Amendment was forcedon Black slaves and their descen-dants. The Dred Scott Decision(Continued on page 4)Sessaasun ou 9409 480| havagWEEK OF APRIL 17- PiThere is no question that violentcrime 1s a serious problem inAmerica, for all our citizens. Butwe still live in democracy underthe rule of law, which in Americaincludes the precious guaranteesembodied in the Bill of Rights.There is a long tradition of au-thoritanan regimes suspendingcivil liberties in the name of publicsafety. But thatis not, forthe mostpart, our American tradition. Andit is astounding to realize that thisbill is being championed by someof the very same Republicans whopromised that once they were incharge, government wou!d not in-trude in our lives.Asif this bill weren pad enough,consider the process by which itwas passed. The House JudiciaryCommittee held no hearings onthe bill. There was, therefore, nopublic discussion or input fromconstitutional experts, police of-ficers or citizens advocacy groups.At one point during the vote, Rep.Mel Watts (D-NC), a member ofthe Congressional Black Caucus,offered an amendment to the billin form of the text of the FourthAmendment, to try to restore therights that the majority of his col-leagues were so eager to takeaway. Rep. Watt Ts amendment,actually the Fourth Amendment,was rejected by a vote of 303 to ~121, showing how little regard ourelected officials have for the basiclaws and principles of democracy.Gun Ban Repeal To .Start in EarnestOn Friday, March 31, the first ofthree hearings were held in thecongressional effort to repeal Presi-dent Clinton Ts gun ban. Friday Tshearing began at 10:00 a.m. inroon 2141 of the Rayburn HouseOffice Building. Testimony wasgiven before the House sub-com-mittee on crime chaired by Con-gressman Bill McCollum. Testify-ing will be numerous people whohave used firearms in self-defense,many of them used firearms cur-rently banned under the 1994Crime Bill.Additionally, on the 3ist, re-nowned authorities on the issue ofself-defense, the criminal misuseof firearms, and youth violencewill also testify before the commit-tee.On April 5, the second hearingbefore Congressman McCollum Tscommittee will focus on the mean-ing of the Second Amendment. Re-nowned scholars, who are all cur-rently law professors, and whomhave published books on the Sec-ond Amendment including the his-torical origins and current-dayimplications wil! give testimony.Also on April 5, aw enforcementofficers of all ranks will testifythat law enforcement is far fromagreement with the Clinton gunban.Clayton announcesWater Grant(Washington, D.C.) Congress-woman Eva M. Clayton announcesthe award of a more than $2million grant to the Warren CountyWater and Sewer District tocon-struct a central water distnbutionsystem to serve the townships ofShady Creek, Shocco andWarrenton. oThis grant will provide the areaan opportunity to bolster its waterservice to hundreds of customers, ?said Clayton. oI am delighted thatNorth Carolinians continue to re-ceive resources to improve theirway of life. ?The Rural Utilities Service grantwill be used to construct a centralwater distribution system to servethree townships.The project includes a storage.tank, a booster station and distn-bution lines. Water for the systemwill be purchased from the KerrLake Regional Water System andwill serve more than 800 ruralcustomers. oWe welcome any opportunity toimprove the receipt of services forthe basic needs of our community, ?said Clayton. oThis is a great op-portunity. ?Think tank thinks genocideBy Abiola SinclairShahrazid Ali, in her controver-sial book The Black Man Ts Guideto Understanding the BlackWoman, while repugnant on manylevels, did raise a few valid issues.She maintained that while poorBlack women were in a reprehen-sible state, at least they were hav-ing children.And considering the decimationof the Black race which hasdropped in number from nearly 28percent of the total U.S. popula-tion to only 13 percent, any majordrop in birth rate would be tanta-mount to nearing extinction.It is in that light that we mustanalyze and begin to understandthe real intelligence behind thehue and cry against Black peoplein this county.There are major think tanksfunctioning in America in whichso-oalled academics are funded forthe sole purpose of studying theBlack problem from a White stand-point. These think tanks recom-mend public policy, and thinktanks like the American Enter-prise Institute and The Progressand Freedom Foundation, are re-sponsible for Republican policydirectives on welfare, crime andsocial programs.Throwing ~Bell Curve TCharles Murray (The Bell Curve)is a fellow at The American Enter-prise Institute, and he has comeup with measures based on hisresearch that ifimplemented couldfurther deter Blacks from havingchildren, thus further lower thealready low birth rate. These poli-\cies would also have a detrimentaleffect on the children of the poor,putting added stress on their par-ents.When you consider that a singlemother often gets little help rear-ing her children and usually livesin a high crime rate area, it isamazing that only onein four maleshave trouble with the law. Cutthese think tank advocates fewersocial programs for the poor (readBlacks); cutting back of educa-tional programs in prisons, whichis insane; cutting back of educa-tion entitlement programs likePell, cutting back on the buildingof federal housing (it was on thinktank policy advice that the Reaganand Bush administrations refusedto build any public housing, whichresulted in homelessness, over-crowding and entire classes ofpeople who could not afford to paytheir raised rents). They also advocate cutbacks in day care, Jobtraining, etc. Why?These programs only make senseas social policy if the objective isgenocide by degrees. By aiming atpoor Black women, they are tak-ing aim at the major group ofBlacks who are still producing chil-dren.Consider the words of CharlesMurray, the Josef Mengele of theNew World Order: girls who getpregnant should give up their chil-dren for adoption. Most simplydon Tt know how to be good moth-ers. Agreat many of them have nobusiness being mothers, and theirfeelings don Tt count as much as thewelfare of the child. Also, interra-cial adoption are to be encouragedto ensure that any bumper crop onnew parentless babies find homes.These notions may well apply todrug addicts anda few slugs whosebehavior makes the evening news,but by and large, women have ba-bies because they want them; don Ttwant to be in the world alone, andoften, in an age-old, misguidedattempt to trap a man.As for rich Blacks, they squeezeout one child, maybe two. Theyalso often marry White, thus even-tually moving themselves out ofthe Black race entirely, as theirchildren marry White 50 percentof the time. They also take theirmoney out of the Black race. Thusa poor black woman can never evenmarry out of poverty as Black menwith money won't accept her. Whenour situation is looked at from theStandpoint of a steady decline inour population due to fratricideand hostile and erratic public poli-cies of the last 13 years, one couldmake an arguable case for geno-cide.If even a portion of Gingrich/Murray/GOP program is imple-mented now, by the year 2000,Blacks will not have jobs. The GOPprogram calls fora return to statesrights, a rollback of AffirmativeAction, which will mean neithermunicipalities nor private indus-try will be obliged to hire Blacks.And Whites will feel justified inthe belief that all White malesshould have ajob before any Blackperson is hired. Their idea of mi-nority hiring will be to hire a White(Continued on Page 4) ~7 Bawhec.SWIIAMIMKON PIO4*MOT PIO